{"id":9883,"date":"2022-06-29T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:39:44","slug":"dame-edna-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/06\/29\/dame-edna-in-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Edna in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Humphries (<em>Dame Edna<\/em>) in the latest edition of <em>The Oldie<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The character of the collection [at the Russell-Coates in Bournemouth] has not been vitiated by the modish philistinism to be found in other museums across the country. Birmingham\u2019s famous collection of Pre-Raphaelite masters is &#8216;temporarily not on show\u2019 \u2014 which was probably what visitors to German museums in the thirties were told when they couldn&#8217;t find Chagall, Munch, Kokoschka or their friends on the gallery walls. A frightened-looking attendant told me a couple of Pre-Raphaelites might reappear during their forthcoming &#8216;Colonialism&#8217; blockbuster.&#8221; [Likely linked with &#8216;Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites&#8217;, a big Arts Council project ending in 2023].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as well I&#8217;ve seen it several times. Looks like I won&#8217;t see the same collection ever again now, as originals, judging by the other things I read about the leftist demolition job being done on this once-great museum. I suspect that many will now think twice before leaving things such as legacies or collections of paintings in their care.<\/p>\n<p>Also a short book review in the same issue brings news of a new Arnold Bennett biography. The reviewer makes the usual mistake of thinking of The Potteries as &#8220;northern&#8221; rather than Midlands. But it points out that Bennett&#8217;s immense wealth (all earned from honest commercial writing and book sales) was one of the key reasons that he was so disparaged by other writers of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) in the latest edition of The Oldie&#8230; &#8220;The character of the collection [at the Russell-Coates in Bournemouth] has not been vitiated by the modish philistinism to be found in other museums across the country. Birmingham\u2019s famous collection of Pre-Raphaelite masters is &#8216;temporarily not on show\u2019 \u2014 which was probably what visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}